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    The Essex Way

    5/5Writer Gillian Darley celebrates the unsung and lesser-known delights of mid-Essex.

    The Refusal of Place

    3/5Writer Lavinia Greenlaw takes us back to the formative landscape of her childhood.

    Washed Up in Essex

    2/5Writer AL Kennedy takes us on a watery journey through the county she now calls home.

    Metropolitan Essex

    1/5Billy Bragg explores the London-Essex borderland that fuelled his childhood imagination.

    Brightening from the East

    4/5Writer and social historian Ken Worpole introduces us to Essex's radical past.